16831 Quotes & Sayings

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder. — Martha Graham

Being a blues singer is like being black two times. — B.B. King

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold. — Francois Mauriac

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. — Susanna Kaysen

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Annie Besant

We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live. — Dana George

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur. — Jane Siberry

Faith is nothing more - but how much this is - than a motion of the soul toward God. It is not belief. Belief has objects - Christ was resurrected, God created the earth - faith does not. Even the motion of faith is mysterious and inexplicable: I say the soul moves "toward" God, but that is only the limitation of language. It may be God who moves, the soul that opens for him. Faith is faith in the soul. — Christian Wiman

Coach Genghis rather — Lemony Snicket

There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma. Science has proven what goes up must come down, but that's about as far as it's gone. To believe that for every action, word, and thought, there is an equal consequence takes something more intuitive, more personal; it's more metaphysical. — Bryan Kest

One boy has it particularly hard. I won't tell you his name. But I will tell you all about him. He has very nice brown hair, and he wears it long with a ponytail. I think he will regret this when he looks back on his life. — Stephen Chbosky